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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Wikileaks: CIA's Brennan on 'witch hunt' when Hastings was killed

A 2010 email released by Wikileaks from a
top-level CIA contractor asserts that CIA Director John Brennan, the
subject of a story by now deceased journalist Michael Hastings, was on a
"witch hunt" against "investigative journalists" perceived as hostile.

Hastings, a reporter for the Rolling Stone who
ruffled many feathers in his career, was killed in an unusual high-speed
car accident in which the vehicle exploded on impact with a tree, and
perhaps before. Hastings' wife confirmed to San Diego 6 News Television, soon after the uncharacteristic high-speed automobile crash, that Hastings' next "big story," as he called it, was to be on Brennan.
The email, written by Stratfor President Fred Burton and reported by San Diego 6, reads:
Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources.
Note -- There is specific tasker from the WH to go after anyone printing
materials negative to the Obama agenda (oh my.) Even the FBI is
shocked. The Wonder Boys must be in meltdown mode...
The story on Brennan was never published.
Stratfor was once called "The Shadow CIA"
by Barron's. In 2012 WikiLeaks began publishing “The Global
Intelligence Files,” over five million e-mails from the Texas-based
company.
The email has never been disavowed by Stratfor. When San Diego 6
reporter Kim Dvorak asked the CIA for comment on the email in the
context of the Hastings' death, in an August, 2013 report, a CIA
spokesman responded:
“Without commenting on information disseminated by WikiLeaks, any
suggestion that Director Brennan has ever attempted to infringe on
constitutionally-protected press freedoms is offensive and baseless.”
Michael Hasting was killed on June 18, 2013, when the new Mercedes C250
SUV he had just leased hit a tree after running numerous red lights at
over 100 mph in Los Angeles. A surveillance video at a pizza shop
captured a fiery, violent explosion, which is uncharacteristic of
high-speed impacts. Generations of advances in safety design have made
accidents exhibiting these characteristics unheard of.